Google Classroom is designed to help teachers effectively manage document sharing and provide feedback to their students. It works side-by-side with Google Drive. The classroom is designed to be used by teachers without input from IT or Tech Support. Setting up your classroom will take less than 5 minutes per class.
There are two ways to enroll students in the classroom. First is by email address and the second one is via a unique classroom code. It is to be noted that students and teachers' must be in the same domain (same email address). The classroom does not currently support multi-domain districts.
If the teacher plans to enroll their students, then the teacher will need their email addresses. The easiest way to add students via email is to create a contact group within Gmail. Give the group the same name as your class. The teachers' Gmail contacts will be displayed within the classroom. Then they can select a contact group or individual users to enroll them in their class.
Some of the features of Google Classroom are that it provides a simple “announcement” feature which allows teachers to send messages to all enrolled students. The messaging tool can include links, attachments, and videos. Students can reply to announcements. The primary purpose of the classroom is to make distributing assignments to students easier. Assignments can include a due date and time. Assignments can include a link, video, or attachment. Teachers’ do not have access to student work until submitted. Students may choose to manually share files if desired. Once submitted, the teacher becomes the owner of the document and the student can no longer edit. Teachers' can provide feedback to students in the classroom. Students can ask questions and respond to teacher comments. Teachers can also add comments within the Doc / Presentation / etc to leave feedback.
In this pandemic situation, it is very beneficial for teachers to teach their students via google classroom.